Ownership Strategies and Survival of Foreign Subsidiaries: Impacts of Institutional Distance and Experience

By Ajai S. Gaur, J. Lu. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Comparing capitalisms: understanding institutional diversity and its implications for international business (2008, background): “…of dimensions and measures used to conceptualize institutions, and integrated these into composite notions of institutional distance or measured degree of similarity across a wide array of scored indices of institutional development (Delios & Beamish, 1999; Gaur & Lu, 2007; Wan & Hoskisson, 2003).”
Spatial geography and control in foreign acquisitions (2012, background): “Recent studies suggest a nonlinear relationship among cultural distance, institutional distance, and foreign ownership strategies (e.g., Gaur & Lu, 2007; Malhotra et al., 2011).”
The Impact of Added Cultural Distance and Cultural Diversity on International Expansion Patterns: A Penrosean Perspective (2011, positive): “…component (Meyer and Nguyen, 2005; Meyer and Peng, 2005) and the institutional distance dimension applies these components to measure the distance between regulatory institutions (formal) and cognitive and normative institutions (informal) (Gaur and Lu, 2007; Xu et al., 2004) of local contexts.”
Sub‐National Institutional Contingencies, Network Positions, and IJV Partner Selection (2012, positive): “Following Gaur and Lu (2007), we used a Euclidean distance calculation based on country-level indicators related to the regulative and normative aspects of institutional environments in order to construct the institutional distances between the foreign partner’s headquarters country and our focal…”
Institutional distance and local isomorphism strategy (2012, background): “When they enter politically distant countries, it becomes more difficult for them to conduct business (e.g., Gaur & Lu, 2007).”
Performance of International Joint Ventures: What Factors Really Make a Difference and How? (2009, background): “…how the control or ownership structure influences IJV performance (e.g., Boateng & Glaister, 2002; Brouthers & Bamossy, 2006; Demirbag & Mirza, 2000; Dhanaraj & Beamish, 2004; Gaur & Lu, 2007; Lin, 2005; Luo, 2007b; Makino et al., 2007; Merchant, 2000; Newburry & Zeira, 1999; Zhang & Li, 2001).”
Cultural differences, MNE learning abilities, and the effect of experience on subsidiary mortality in a dissimilar culture: Evidence from Korean MNEs (2013, methodology): “Nevertheless, we also used the number of subsidiary-years (a subsidiary-year represented 1 year of operations by one FDI project) in order to measure experience variables (Delios & Beamish, 2001; Gaur & Lu, 2007); the results remained largely unchanged.”
Institutional Environments, Staffing Strategies, and Subsidiary Performance (2007, methodology): “…and normative distance, we selected items from the 2001 edition of the World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY, 2001), and Euromoney (2001) that captured the regulative and normative elements of a country’s institutional environment (Delios & Beamish, 1999; Gaur & Lu, 2007; Wan & Hoskisson, 2003).”
Beyond Hofstede and GLOBE: Improving the quality of cross-cultural research (2010, background): “Gaur and Lu (2007) also analyzed the impact of distance in macro-level governance on the survival of MNE foreign subsidiaries.”
Institutional Distance and Foreign Subsidiary Performance in Emerging Markets: Moderating Effects of Ownership Strategy and Host-Country Experience (2016, neutral): “These include entry mode or subsidiary ownership strategies (Gaur and Lu 2007), host-country experience (Carlsson et al.”
Institutions, resources, and internationalization of emerging economy firms (2014, positive): “For firm-level international experience, we used two variables: export intensity and export experience (Delios, Gaur, & Makino, 2008; Gaur & Lu, 2007).”
The Impact of Institutional and Human Resource Distance on International Entry Strategies (2009, background): “The early literature focused on cultural distance, as measured by the Kogut and Singh (1988) index, and recent studies have complemented this with measures of formal institutional (or regulatory) distance (Gaur and Lu, 2007; Xu and Shenkar, 2002; Xu et al., 2004).”